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  1. Hair loss - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

    Hair loss (alopecia) can affect just your scalp or your entire body, and it can be temporary or permanent. It can be the result of heredity, ...

  2. Stress and hair loss: Are they related? - Mayo Clinic

    With alopecia areata, the body's immune system attacks the hair follicles — causing hair loss.

  3. Hair loss - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic

    You might be able to reverse hair loss, or at least slow it. With some conditions, such as patchy hair loss (alopecia areata), hair may regrow without treatment ...

  4. Frontal fibrosing alopecia - Mayo Clinic

    An increasingly common type of hair loss in older women is a receding hairline, called frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA). It's a form of lichen planopilaris ...

  5. Can stress cause hair loss? - Mayo Clinic News Network

    Alopecia areata. A variety of factors are thought to cause alopecia areata (al-o-PEE-she-uh ar-e-A-tuh), possibly including severe stress. With alopecia ...

  6. Stress May Play A Role In Hair Loss, But Other Triggers Could Be The Cause

    ... alopecia areata. It usually involves patchy hair loss, with bald patches about the size of a quarter or half-dollar. In extreme cases, alopecia areata may ...

  7. Hair loss - Doctors and departments - Mayo Clinic

    Frontal fibrosing alopecia · Frontal fibrosing alopecia · Male-pattern baldness · Patchy hair loss (alopecia areata) · Traction alopecia. Show more related ...

  8. A Study of What is Different in People with Alopecia Areata that Makes T cells Attack Hair Follicles - Mayo Clinic

    This study is being done to try to figure out what is different in people with Alopecia Areata that makes the T cells attack hair follicles. Participation ...

  9. Chemotherapy and hair loss: What to expect during treatment - Mayo Clinic

    ... alopecia. Accessed Nov. 6, 2023. Rugo HS, et al. Alopecia related to systemic cancer therapy. https://www.uptodate.com/contents/search. Accessed Nov. 6 ...

  10. Hair Loss Clinical Trials - Mayo Clinic Research

    Little is known about the natural history of cicatricial alopecia (CA), including baseline hair characteristics, etiology, risk factors and time course.